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Jessie Ann Benton Frémont (May 31, 1824 – December 27, 1902) was an American writer and political activist. She was the daughter of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton and the wife of military officer, explorer, and politician John C. Frémont. She wrote numerous stories that appeared in popular magazines of the time, as well as several ...
Destitute, the family depended on the publication earnings of his wife Jessie. Frémont's grave monument in Rockland Cemetery . Frémont lived on Staten Island in retirement. In April 1890, he was reappointed as a major general and then added to the Army's retired list, an action taken to ease his financial condition by enabling him to qualify ...
Immortal Wife is a best-selling fictional biography written by Irving Stone. [1] The book came out in 1944 [2] and is the story of Jessie Benton Frémont the well known and influential abolitionist and political activist. Her husband was Colonel John C. Frémont. The book is a novel and not a factual biography, nor a factual history.
Few of the miners acknowledged Frémont's claim and a legal battle began that would take until 1856 to settle and 1859 to finalize. Using the vague description of the original Alvarado grant, Frémont "floated" his ten square league rancho from the original claim to cover mineral lands including properties already in the possession of miners.
It's possible that Jackie was Jack's second wife. It is rumored that he and socialite Durie Malcolm eloped after a drunken party in Palm Beach in 1947. But John's father, Joseph P. Kennedy ...
John Cena shared rare insight into his marriage to his wife, Shay Shariatzadeh. When asked what his most prized possession was during an interview with WSJ. Magazine, Cena, 47, replied, “The ...
John McCook’s character on The Bold and the Beautiful, Eric Forrester, has walked down the aisle 10 times — but in real life, McCook has been married to wife Laurette Spang for more than four ...
Frémont was "determined to square accounts with these people." [7] His scouts killed two Klamath warriors on 11 May 1846, but Frémont considered that inadequate. On 12 May 1846, Frémont's assistant Kit Carson led an assault on a Klamath village named Dokdokwas on the shores of Klamath Lake. The assailants destroyed the village and killed at ...